10 Facts About Ole Scheeren

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Ole Scheeren was born on 6 January 1971 and is a German architect, urbanist and principal of Buro Ole Scheeren Group with offices in Beijing, Hong Kong, Berlin and Bangkok and a visiting professor at the University of Hong Kong since January 2010.

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Ole Scheeren is the son of the German architect Dieter Scheeren, who was a professor of architecture and civil engineering at the RheinMain University of Applied Sciences in Wiesbaden, Hesse.

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Ole Scheeren studied at the Institute of Technology in Karlsruhe, at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale in Lausanne and made a thesis at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London receiving the RIBA Silver Medal in 2000 for his work called "MexT Project" which analysed social, territorial and economical phenomena in relation with space and architecture.

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Ole Scheeren directed OMA's work for Prada and completed the Prada Epicenters in New York and Los Angeles .

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Ole Scheeren led numerous other projects including the Beijing Books Building, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Leeum Cultural Center in Seoul, and a masterplan for Penang Island in Malaysia.

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In March 2010, Ole Scheeren left OMA and started his own architecture firm named Buro Ole Scheeren Group.

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Ole Scheeren currently has several projects under development around the world, including two in North America; Fifteen Fifteen will be a high-rise tower adjacent to Vancouver's Crown Life Plaza as well as Barclay Village, a pair of residential towers to be located in downtown Vancouver.

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Ole Scheeren is developing Riverpark Tower, the adaptive reuse of an existing office tower into a residential high-rise in Frankfurt, Germany and Empire City in Ho Chi Minh City, a large-scale, three tower complex that tops out at 333 meters.

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Ole Scheeren has contributed to various arts and culture projects and exhibitions throughout his career, including the International Highrise Award, Milan Triennale, China Design Now in London, Cities on the Move in London and Bangkok, Media City Seoul and the Rotterdam Film Festival.

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10.

Ole Scheeren has been living in Beijing since 2004 and was romantically involved with the Hong Kong actress Maggie Cheung from 2007 to 2011.

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